476 broadway with Alessandro Simonetti e Alan Chies
Two different approaches to portraiture
Art & Design
June 27th, 2017
June 27th, 2017
Alessandro Simonetti and Alan Chies are two amazing photographers who, on the occasion of Edicola's fourth issue the face, gave birth to a project they were talking about since years: joining forces to create something together.
476 broadway was born.
Alan Chies
I have always shot with a "portraiture" impression that always gets the chance to receive something unexpected. Since we know each other, Alessandro and I have always had a lot of information exchange and now we have been given the opportunity to confront us directly about what we have always discussed on. The project has been dealt with great naturalness and I hope that this sensation will then be transmitted also to those who will look at it.
Alessandro Simonetti
When I think of the word “face” I do not think of an image rather than a feeling, the act of confronting. I have always taken pictures of people out of the editorial context, my interest is directed towards social groups and the element of the portrait is always relevant ... In this series, I continued the path of One on Four, hundreds of polaroids with subjects ranging from KRS-1 to Kim Gordon to friends and relatives.
